[Seattle-editorial] Promoting Features, work flow

[BFGalbraith]

> What I found out is that what people *actually* want
> to do is:
>   * find a strong story from the newswire
>   * excerpt the first paragraph or so, perhaps with
> minor edits
>   * link to the longer, original story for more info
> 
> (this is of course in addition to original content
> which gets written for
> center column)
> 
> Would the editorial team describe this an accurate
> description of their
> process?

 

First, I am not what you would call a "well
established part of the editorial team" so please
don't take my opinion as critically relevant to what
the editorial team wants.  

Second, I don't know if this is how the Editorial team
WANTS to do things, or if instead it's just how they
thought they had to do it at the meeting, because it's
how they have always done it in the past.  

Third, personally, NO WAY do I want to have to write
extra material for every decent newswire item that
comes along that should get center-column attention. 
Talk about "volunteering yourself"!  What a great way
to guarantee we won't have time to get attention to
the good stuff on the newswire.

Fourth, Kellan, is it possible to have it set up so we
can do it both ways?  Can we have the option of doing
it "the old way", AND ALSO the option of INSTEAD doing
it my moving it directly from the newswire?

 

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